Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6313#discussion_r202103083
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/heap/HeapKeyedStateBackend.java
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@@ -240,7 +243,7 @@ private boolean hasRegisteredState() {
}
@Override
- public <N, SV, S extends State, IS extends S> IS createState(
+ public <N, SV, S extends State, IS extends S> IS createInternalState(
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No, timers cannot use state descriptor, they cannot extend `State`
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